Physical Intelligence - Day 75

The most anyone can hope is avoiding the pitfalls of chronic illness.  By this time last year my uncle had passed in what was a horrible death from pneumonia while suffering acutely with Parkinsons Disease.  Many of us are going to end our days in a fairly mundane way but some of us will be hit with chronic illness.   The blessing of aging then should remain a blessing, and it is physically intelligent to learn to appreciate the differing looks that aging gives us. 

There is an advantage in facing mid-life crisis because that self-image issue is at least a motivator to remain physically fit and maybe being comfortable in my own skin deters a more motivated objective to exercise.   The Beatles sang two songs - one was "When I am 64".  It is then ironic that two of those Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison never lived to be 64.

Ringo Star and Paul McCartney however have made it to their mid-70's and by all accounts look very well for their respective age.  Perhaps the other song the Beatles sang is far more relevant to physical intelligence which is "Let it Be".  The song does not mean let things go but to come to peace with things whose time has gone.  Instead mid-life crisis is the complete opposite :

Those dudes that actually do have a mid-life crisis are actually a minority, the vast majority of us middle aged dudes (as the CBS video above attests) actually do not do.  Instead the video talks about something we do not think about i.e. MID-LIFE CONFIDENCE.

So it is I throw mid-life confidence into the bag that I am putting together for my own physical intelligence. Boomers should a marketers dreams and why not, it is boomers who created the entire conception of marketing to begin with.  Then there is AGEISM - and yet again it is boomers whose fixation on youth when they were young now is working against them - this culture of youth was not invented by the millennials, it was the boomers in the early 70's. 

At any age the recurring theme for ALL generations is building confidence, but by the time we reach mid-life, surely all those books we read and video's we watched about building confidence must surely have registered with some.  It generally has not, and the billion dollar self-help industry does not mind one bit that we don't actually learn to think of our life as confidence, even when we reach the middle years, having at decade to contemplate and learn that.

Nobody wants to take time to contemplate their own mid-life confidence, because our attention is fully geared to think about what goes wrong with life - so psychology keeps trumping physicality.   I will treat it as a symbol of mid-life confidence to watch the final video today, which is the TOP 10 MIDLIFE CRISIS movies :